What do you think of the so-called "scientific" evidence of an afterlife where people say they floated above the operating table and watched as doctors worked on them during an operation before going off to some kind of otherworldly dimension? Just the figment of drug induced imagination? Probably. But some of their accounts have been remarkably accurate when they shouldn't have had any knowledge of the operating room since they were unconscious. Hmmmm...
proof of an afterlife?
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The jury is still out on whether someone can recall what happened in their presence under general anesthetic and many such patients were never given a general anesthetic but were unconscious due to trauma. There's no reason to assume at this point that such recall is supernatural. While interesting, it's definitely not definitive proof.mario said:
"Several investigations of spared cognitive functions under general anesthesia have obtained evidence of small but reliable amounts of learning, but these are matched by a comparable number of negative results (see Andrade in press, and Ghoneim & Block 1992, for reviews). If the anesthetic has been adequately administered and renders the patient entirely unconscious, then spared learning must in turn be unconscious. A typical positive result was reported by Jelicic, Bonke, Wolters, and Phaf (1992). They gave anesthetized patients repeated auditory presentations of two words (e.g., yellow, green) from a semantic category. Later, when the anesthetic had worn off, subjects were asked in a priming test to generate members of those categories. Subjects were significantly more likely to produce the pre-exposed words than were control subjects who had not been read the words during anesthesia. Thus some information does seem to have been encoded while the subjects were unconscious."
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